VJ Day In Times Square <<>> Life Magazine <<>> August 14, 1945
V-J Day in Times Square is a photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt: This is copyright Alfred Eisenstadt and should not be used by anyone. This means you!! I thought it was in the public domain. Now i think not. I may have to remove it.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-J_day_in_Times_Square
This picture is iconic for those of us who still remember the day.
My life certainly changed dramatically!!!!
I was actually in Sea Gate, Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York on that day.
After the war, I worked part time in a tavern on 40th Street at Seventh Avenue, not far from this spot.
I am posting this photo to show the original image that formed the basis for other works of art that used this as a model...
V-J Day in Times Square is a photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt that portrays an American sailor kissing a young nurse in a white dress on V-J Day in Times Square on August 14, 1945. The photograph was published a week later in Life magazine among many photographs of celebrations around the country that were presented in a twelve-page section called Victory. A two-page spread faces three other kissing poses among celebrators in Washington, D.C., Kansas City, and Miami opposite Eisenstaedt's, which was given a full-page display. Kissing was a favorite pose encouraged by media photographers of service personnel during the war, but Eisenstaedt was photographing a spontaneous event that occurred in Times Square as the announcement of the end of the war on Japan was made by President Truman at seven o'clock. Similar jubilation spread quickly with the news.
The photograph is known under various titles, such as V-J Day in Times Square, V-Day, and The Kiss.[1][2]
The official United States celebration is not on this date, however. V-J Day is instead celebrated on September 2 , the date of the formal signing of the surrender.[3] A special day of remembrance is marked in Japan and other countries on September 2.
Because Eisenstaedt was photographing rapidly changing events during the celebrations he did not have an opportunity to get the names and details. The photograph does not clearly show the faces of either person involved in this embrace and several people have claimed to be the subjects. The photograph was shot just south of 45th Street looking north from a location where Broadway and Seventh Avenue converge. Soon afterward, throngs of people crowded into the square and it became a sea of people.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_over_Japan_Day
VJ Day In Times Square <<>> Life Magazine <<>> August 14, 1945
V-J Day in Times Square is a photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt: This is copyright Alfred Eisenstadt and should not be used by anyone. This means you!! I thought it was in the public domain. Now i think not. I may have to remove it.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-J_day_in_Times_Square
This picture is iconic for those of us who still remember the day.
My life certainly changed dramatically!!!!
I was actually in Sea Gate, Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York on that day.
After the war, I worked part time in a tavern on 40th Street at Seventh Avenue, not far from this spot.
I am posting this photo to show the original image that formed the basis for other works of art that used this as a model...
V-J Day in Times Square is a photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt that portrays an American sailor kissing a young nurse in a white dress on V-J Day in Times Square on August 14, 1945. The photograph was published a week later in Life magazine among many photographs of celebrations around the country that were presented in a twelve-page section called Victory. A two-page spread faces three other kissing poses among celebrators in Washington, D.C., Kansas City, and Miami opposite Eisenstaedt's, which was given a full-page display. Kissing was a favorite pose encouraged by media photographers of service personnel during the war, but Eisenstaedt was photographing a spontaneous event that occurred in Times Square as the announcement of the end of the war on Japan was made by President Truman at seven o'clock. Similar jubilation spread quickly with the news.
The photograph is known under various titles, such as V-J Day in Times Square, V-Day, and The Kiss.[1][2]
The official United States celebration is not on this date, however. V-J Day is instead celebrated on September 2 , the date of the formal signing of the surrender.[3] A special day of remembrance is marked in Japan and other countries on September 2.
Because Eisenstaedt was photographing rapidly changing events during the celebrations he did not have an opportunity to get the names and details. The photograph does not clearly show the faces of either person involved in this embrace and several people have claimed to be the subjects. The photograph was shot just south of 45th Street looking north from a location where Broadway and Seventh Avenue converge. Soon afterward, throngs of people crowded into the square and it became a sea of people.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_over_Japan_Day